Athelhampton, LEASE of a messuage or dwellinghouse and farm at Adminstone otherwise Athelhampston in Dorset, situate in the parishes of Athelhampston, Puddlestown and Tincleton, John Wadham Floyer to John Pain, yeoman. Three large vellum sheets, sized 24" x 30"., wax seal. 1850. £14.00

Beale's Fancy Fair, Publisher PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF BOURNEMOUTH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Sm. 4to, 42 photolitho views on extending strip (some full page, some 2, 4 or 6 to a page). Gilt title on front board. Map on back endpaper, lacks the back free endpaper with half the map. c1900. £17.00
¶ Includes two good views of Beale's shop.

Beaminster AN ABSTRACT OF MR. WILLIAM RICHARDS his Title to Lands called Chappel Marsh in the parish of Beaminster. Details deeds from 1588 to 1736. 2p., sm. folio, blank conjoint leaf. Signed John Russell, 1768, as having received the deeds. 1768. £25.00

Beaminster ANCIENT NAMES & ADMEASUREMENTS of Chapel Marsh Estate. Sheet of paper size 13" x 7", listing 20 closes and fields with acreages. Folded with docket title. 1756. £16.00

Biles (Bert), Weymouth ALBUM OF VIEWS OF WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND 10 pages of views, one in colour, album size 9" x 12", stiff printed wraps, plus 2 pages of descriptive text (printed in gold) and two coloured views pasted inside front and back wrap. Staples rusty. c1910. £18.00
¶ Includes fine double page panorama of Weymouth, view of workings at Quarry, Portland.

Bloxworth ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet XLII N.E. Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 17", plus margins. Second Edition 1902. £9.00
¶ Coves Bloxworth House, Morden, Black Heath.

Bournemouth FOUR AUCTION SALE PARTICULARS for properties in Talbot Woods. Properties are: 4 East Avenue, 1948. 7pp., 4to; 19 Huntly Road, 1954. 4pp., 8vo; 30 Elgin Road, 1955, 4pp., 4to; 74, East Avenue, 1949, 7pp., 4to. All with actual photograph pasted to front wrap. Four items. 1948-55. £16.00

Bournemouth THREE SALE PARTICULARS of properties in Talbot Woods, comprising 'Amat', 4 East Avenue, 6pp, 4to; 'Chalumna' 7 Dunbar Road, 8pp., 4to, 'Pine Ridge', Glenferness Avenue, 9pp., 4to, 2 photos. in text, crease in front wrap. All three have a real photo on front wrap. 1936-1948. 3 items, 1936-55. £17.00

Bridport Deanery TO THE CLERGY, PAROCHIAL REPRESENTATIVES and Others of the Four Portions of the Deanery of Bridport. Printed letter from the four Rural Deans concerning the setting up of a Special Mission, as 'there is need of such a spiritual Reviving in this District'. 2pp., 4to. Lent 1878. £8.00

Bright's Stores Ltd. ALBUM OF BOURNEMOUTH VIEWS Full-Page and Other Photographic Reproductions and Panoramic View. 32 views, including one folding panorama. Cloth-covered boards, size 9" x 11". Adverts. Lacks most of cloth on spine, boards darkened at edges. Inner front hinge split, some slight pinkish staining in bottom margin of last three views. c1900. £24.00
¶ Views (mostly by Miell & Ridley) include Branksea, Swanage, Corfe, as well as Bournemouth.

Bryanston WILL of William Straight of Bryanston, Gent. 2p., small folio, conjoint leaf had been used as address panel by Robert Gapper to send the will to John Long at Whalley, near Frome, with small round stamp with letters 'AP'. Conjoint leaf torn right across, splits down main fold, paper creased. 1724. £17.00
¶ Extracted copy with Probate details in Latin. Refers to his Manor of Compton in Wiltshire, messuage in Stourpaine.

BURTON BRADSTOCK ESTATE

Burton Bradstock PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Valuable Freehold Property The Burton Bradstock Estate 1,682 Acres The Greater Part of this Attractive Village, 5 Farms, 3 Caravan Camps, 3 Private Beaches, The West Dorset Golf Course, The Anchor Hotel, 50 Cottages... Old Flax Mill... Haddon House... which Senior & Godwin will sell by Auction in 145 Lots.... 91pp., folio, card wraps, Plan 2 of the 3 plans missing, inner hinge cracked, front wrap stained. 1958. £55.00

Burton LEASE of a cottage, shop, stable and garden with 'six goads of ground' in the Manor of Burton, George Pitt of Iwerne Courtney to John Lawrence of Burton, yeoman. Vellum, size 14" x 23", armorial wax seal. 1724. £24.00
¶ Names three 'lives'.

Chardstock (Liberty and Manor of) LICENCE to William Bond of Axminster, Land Surveyor, to let a house, garden and half an acre in the South Tything of the Manor, late Burridges. Granted at the Court Baron of the Rt. Hon. George Lord Auckland. Vellum, 12«" x 15", ink rubbed on a few words at folds. 1814. £16.00

Chardstock (Liberty and Manor of) LICENCE to William Bond of Axminster, Land Surveyor, to let a cottage and four acres called Purdishay in Chardstock. Granted at the Court Baron of the Rtg. Hon. George Lord Auckland. Vellum, 12«" x 15". 1814. £16.00

Chickerell PHOTOGRAPH of three men in an open-topped car, outside an ivy-covered doorway. Size 4" x 5«", on thick card mount. Titled in pencil on verso 'W de C. P. and Stone in front seat. Harris in back seat of the F.N car, taken outside Mr. Bateson's house at Chickerell.' c1910. £8.00

Church Farm, Sixpenny Handley AUCTION PARTICULARS. A Compact and Most useful Holding. CHURCH FARM, Sixpenny Handley.... 42 Acres.... Woolley & Wallis will Sell by Auction.... On Tuesday, 16th July, 1968. Plan which is partly faded loosely inserted, (7)pp, 4to, original printed wraps with photographic illust pasted to top wrap. 1968. £10.00

Collins (Capt. Grenville) PORTLAND Chart showing Lulworth Cove, Weymouth Road, Weymouth and Melcombe, Portland Bill, Crab, Chisham, Portland Castle. Size 17" x 21«", plus margins. Scale 1«" = 1 mile. Vignette bottom left with four figures, goats, dedication to Capt. George St. Lo, bottom right are harvester, animals etc., around scale bar. Compass rose at centre with rhumb lines. Left hand edge with several small edge tears (not reaching beyond plate mark), top 6" of left hand edge rather ragged. A few light grey marks top left. c1700. £180.00

Collins (Capt. Grenville) PORTLAND Chart showing Lulworth Cove, Weymouth Road, Weymouth and Melcombe, Portland Bill, Crab, Chisham, Portland Castle. Engraved surface size 17" x 21«", plus margins. Scale 1«" = 1 mile. Vignette bottom left with four figures, goats, dedication to Capt. George St. Lo, bottom right are harvester, animals etc., around scale bar. Compass rose at centre with rhumb lines. c1700. £220.00
¶ A good strong impression on thick stiff paper.

Corfe Castle INDENTURE TRIPARTITE between William Rose of Rempstone in Corfe Castle, gent., and Susannah his wife with Henry Hooton of Mappowder, clerk, John Nelson of Dorchester, clerk, and Thomas Cox of Stinsford, clerk, concerning Rose's marriage settlement and messuage farm and demesne called Rempstone in Corfe Castle now in the possession of Thomas Tidbury. Copy made for Chancery case, 1746, of deed dated 1722. Vellum, 26" x 27", vellum foxed, grey stain at centre, but legible. 1746. £26.00

Cranborne area THREE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet XVI S.E (Romford, Cranborne Common), and XXVI S.W (Uddens Park, Holt, Sheet XVI N.E (Boveridge House, Crendell). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 17" plus margins. Last sheet with contours in red. First sheet Provisional Edition, 1938, others Second Edition 1902. £24.00

Digby family DEED OF COVENANT between George Wingfield Digby and Frederick Powell. Draft, 4p. folio. 1864. £14.00
¶ Refers to debts run up by George's brother Kenelm and his partner as merchants in Bordeaux and the need to 'prevent the publicity of the bankruptcy of the said firm of Powell and Wingfield & the imprisonment of the sd. Harper Powell and Kenelm Digby Wingfield...'

Dorchester LETTER from H. Peacock, Dorchester, Oct. 12th, 1741, to an unnamed correspondent, (possibly someone for whom he acted as agent) about the supply of 'New River Water' and the tax collected., and lost Court Rolls. 'I will remit all the Money I can get from the Tenants, by first Conveyance'. 2p, folio. 1741. £10.00

Dorchester, Wareham GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Sheet No. 328. Drift. Colour-printed, size 13" x 19", plus margins, key, section. Linen backed and folding to 4to, blue endpapers. 1958. £17.00

Dorchester, Wareham ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet 328. Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 14" plus very wide margins. Small 'Record Copy' stamp in margin. Surveyed 1885-7, Published 1892. £20.00

Dorset coast TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet LIV N.W (Ringstead Bay, Upton), and LVI S.W (Chapman's Pool, Smedmore House). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 17" plus margins. Last sheet with contours in red. 1909 and 1929. £16.00

Dorsetshire CHRISTOPHER SPURRIER ESQUIRE SHERIFF of the Said County by Richard Weston Parr Esq. His Attorney Accounting for the Issues of His Office from the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel.... viz. for the space of one whole year Rendereth an Account of the feefarms, farms, seizures and other debts underwritten.... Vellum roll on several membranes sewn together, size 111" x 12". Comprises 'Parcels of the Pipe', 'Greenwax', and at the end, Sheriff's expenses for allowances to Justices of the Peace, lodgings for Judges, etc. Signed at the end as examined by H. Ware, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe. 1826. £130.00
¶ Pipe rolls listed accounts rendered by the Sheriff to the Exchequer, detailing Crown Revenue from farm rents etc. Under 'Pipe' are listed 32 entries, including rents within the Hundreds of Lusborough, Houndsborough, Winfreth, Puddletown, George, Culliford Street, 'Of the Burgesses of Lyme Regis for a Water Mill', 'Of the Mayor and Burgesses of Lyme Regis for the feefarm of their Town', 'Of the Mayor Burgesses and Corporation of Corfe Castle', 'Of William Raynham for the farm of Bridport Mill', etc.

East Burton and Wool PARTICULARS, PLANS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE of the Freehold Sporting and Agricultural Estate including East Burton Dairy and Brookhill Farm.... Trout and Salmon Fishing in the Frome.... which will be offered for Sale by Auction.... 21st September, 1929. Folio, 22pp., large folding plan loosely inserted. 1929. £24.00

East Forshill, Winfrith SURRENDER by Robert Allen, Taylor, to Robert Harvey of his interest in half an acre of land below 'black poole', part of Smythe's tenement. In English on vellum 5" x 9". 1620. Vellum creased, most of signature, and possibly a small seal, cut away. 1619. £34.00
¶ Refers to the will of Thomas Harvey.

Fifehead Neville CONVEYANCE of premises known as Home Farm, F. Wingfield Digby to E. Miller. 3p., sm. folio, typewritten, with coloured plan, scale 6" to a mile, on waxed cotton, size 10" x 9". 1918. £10.00

Frith & Co. SWANAGE Six loose photographs of Swanage, plus one of Corfe Castle and one of Studland Bay. Size 5«" x 8", matt paper, greyish prints, numbered and titled in white in plate. c1890. £16.00
¶ Includes the Globe, good view of bay with bathing huts, Old Harry, etc.

Gall and Inglis THE 'HALF INCH' MAP OF ENGLAND for Cyclists, Tourists. etc. Sheet 10. Folding map printed in black and brown, folding into printed limp cloth wraps, 12mo. The word 'Dorset' written in ink on front wrap. c1910. £9.00

Iwerne Minster, Stourpaine THREE ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet XIV S.W (Stourpaine, Steepleton Iwerne, Hod Hill), and XIV N.W (Child Okeford, Iwerne Minster), Sheet VIII S.W (East Orchard, Sutton Waldron). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 17" plus margins. Two maps with trace of cental vertical fold. Second Edition 190, and Edition of 1930. £24.00

Lawrence (T.E) ALBUM of postcards and photographs of Lawrence's tomb. Homemade album, plain stiff card wraps, size 8" x 10", pasted inside front wrap is typed poem by James Bramwell about Lawrence's effigy. 3 leaves, tissue guards, with two photographs of the effigy which appear to be clipped from a magazine pasted on, and 7 real photographic postcards, tipped into mounts, as follows: The Lawrence of Arabia Effigy. St. Martins Church. H.6383 (Valentine's); Grave of Lawrence of Arabia. Moreton. Wareham. 18442. (Judges); Interior. St. Martin's Church, Wareham. H. 1558 (Valentine's); Lawrence's Effigy, St. Martin's Church, Wareham (interior); St Martins's Church Wareham (from the road); Lawrence's Cottage, Clouds Hill; Lawrence's Cottage From Cloud's Hill. The last four cards do not have a publisher's name. All cards are titled in white in the plate. c1939. £50.00
¶ The effigy of Lawrence, sculpted by his friend Kennington, was installed in the church in 1959.

Melcombe Regis WILL of Mary Petty. Attested copy on 7p sm. folio. 1858. £9.00
¶ Details her bequests of 'purple & gold Dresden china' etc.

DORSET Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please email :- lesley@localhistory.co.uk

National Farmers' Union, Dorset County Branch CALENDAR BLOTTER FOR 1932-3. 4to, stiff green covers with photo of County Chairman, 7pp of local adverts, plus calendar, and information on branches etc. 1923. £7.00

Newman and Co. TWELVE VIEWS OF WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND Twelve engraved vignette views, oblong 8vo album, blindstamped boards, both detached. Size of engraved surface 3" x 4". Light waterstain affecting most of plates, obtruding onto engraved surface. Front board detatched. c1850. £28.00
¶ Includes Chiswell, Portland from the Nothe, Portland Castle and Railway Station, Chesil Beach with quarry working in foreground, Bow and Arrow castle.

Poole Harbour ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Large Sheet Series. Sheet 144. Scale 1" to a Mile. White cloth wraps with coat of arms. 1909. £10.00

Poole Harbour ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Large Sheet Series. Sheet 144. Scale 1" to a Mile. White cloth wraps with coat of arms. The water of Poole Harbour has been neatly coloured in pale mauve wash, and the islands in brown. 1912. £10.00

Portland ST. PETER'S, PORTLAND Charity card with picture of St. Peter's Church, Portland, Prison Officers' and Military Church, built by the Convicts in 1872. Woodcut of church on card, size 6" x 4«", with brief description of the church and the floor made by Female Convicts, biblical text. 'One Penny' at the bottom of card. c1880. £12.00

Sherborne ABSTRACT of the Title of Wm. Flooks to premises in Half Moon St., next to the King's Arms Inn, agreed to be sold to G.D.W. Digby. 3p. folio, in manuscript, copy deed of covenant for production of title deeds enclosed, 3p. 1861. £10.00

Sherborne CARLTON THEATRE Playbill 'Reg Lever presents his Annual Xmas Pantomime babes in the Wood...' Card, size 12" x 8", printed in bright red, blue, yellow and green, with holes at top for hanging, picture of Babes with rabbits, signed W. Hemmings. January 1953. £12.00
¶ Includes 'Trio Amadori Is it Human or Doll' 'The Dancing Skeletons' etc.

Sherborne Pageant THE FOLK-PLAY BY THE CLEAR STREAM Manuscript by John Alderton Collins Presumably written for a journal or newspaper, describing a performance of the pageant and the preparations in detail. 26p, 4to, neatly written, held at top corner with clip. 3,600 words. Name and address of Collins at Bridport on verso. 1909. £36.00
¶ 'The inhabitants of the little country town in Dorset have given us a folk-play which is unique in English experience...'

Sherborne, Piddletown, Beaminster ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. XVIII. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size 24" x 31". A few small edge tears at bottom. Electrotyped 1872. O.S. blindstamp 1872. £38.00
¶ Also covers part of Somerset.

Southdown Cottage, Weymouth PENCIL DRAWING on grey paper, heightened with white, showing the cottage in middle distance surrounded by trees. Size 7" x 10". Signed in corner 'E. Morant. 1844.' Mounted on thin card. 1844. £18.00

Stourpaine RELEASE of messuage at France in Stourpaine, George Long to John Parker, Surgeon, of Blandford. Vellum, 18" x 22", armorial wax seal. 1727. £25.00

Sturminster Newton DISCHARGE of John Young of St. Botolph Without Aldgate, Middlesex, Grocer, to his brother Thomas Young, of Sturminster Newton Castle, Clothier, of any claim on the inheritance from their father, in return for a sum of money. 33 lines, small folio, blank conjoint leaf. Signed by Young and three witnesses, including Nicholas and Phillis Romayne. 1694. £28.00

Swanage PARTICULARS & CONDITIONS OF SALE of Valuable Freehold Properties situate at Swanage.... for sale by Public Auction at the Town Hall, Swanage.... on Monday 17th day of May, 1897. Folio, 4pp, folded. 1897. £12.00
¶ Includes Alexandra Terrace, Newton Cottage, Albany Terrace, etc.

Symondsbury ASSIGNMENT between Samuel Coade of Lyme Regis and George Follett of Exeter of a messuage in Symondsbury and closes of land called Easthay, Westhay and Vears. Vellum, size 24" x 33", 9 wax seals. Vellum spotted from damp but perfectly legible. 1792. £12.00

Wambrook ABSTRACT OF THE TITLE of the Misses Palmer and Trustees to a messuage and farm called Bewley Down in Wambrook. 27p. folio, held at corner with tape. 1857. £25.00
¶ Lists deeds from 1814 to 1849.

Wambrook LEASE FOR A YEAR of plot of twelve acres late part of Bewley Down, Thomas Lawrence to William Palmer. Vellum, size 15" x 19", wax seal. 1814. £14.00

Wambrook LEASE FOR A YEAR of house and 33 acres of land in Bewley Down called Shags Plud and Woolfern Hill comprising the Site of the old Lime Kiln and a Lime Stone Quarry, and other lands, Thomas Deane to Martha Edwards. Vellum, size 18" x 23", two good armorial wax seals. Loosely inserted is an obligation bond relating to the lease. 1820. £16.00

Wambrook MORTGAGE IN FEE of a messuage and premises in Wambrook for securing £900 and interest. Isaac and Thomas Deane of Wambrook to Martha Edwards. Three large vellum sheets, two wax seals. 1820. £24.00
¶ Concerns 33 acres of land at Bewley Down the site of an old Lime Kiln and a Limestone Quarry, and a small piece of land called Quarry Knapps, and allotments in respect of tenements called White's, Brown's, Darby's.

Wambrook RELEASE IN FEE of Premises in Wambrook Dorset and Grant of a Right of Way, Isaac Deane and his Trustee to Revd. Wm. Palmer. Two large vellum sheets, wax seals. With brief Schedule of deeds. Loosely inserted is LEASE FOR A YEAR, single vellum sheet, 2 wax seals. Ink slightly faded. 1814. £16.00
¶ The land comprised 30 acres part of allotments of land numbered on the map of inclosure, and bounded on by a piece of land called Buenos Ayres, and land belonging to Wadham College.

Wambrook RELEASE in fee of several pieces of Ground in Wambrook allotted in respect of his Estates, John Beviss of Wambrook to Thomas Lawrence of Chard. Two vellum sheets, vellum slightly browned, size 17" x 28", wax seals. Refers to allotments of Common ground of Wambrook under the Enclosure Act. Lists the plots by number according to the enclosure plan, and the tenements such as White's, Brown's, Warren's, Darby's, etc. qualifying Beviss for them. Loosely inserted is a lease for a year relating to the same transaction. 1809. £20.00

Wambrook TO BE SOLD by Auction By Mr Thomas Bunston, at the George Inn, Chard... All That Messuage, Tenement and Farm called Bewley Down... Poster, 17" x 11", folds. Some slight off-setting. 1856. £18.00

Weymouth HAWKES FREEMAN LIMITED Bridge Cash Stores, Weymouth. Leaflet advertising 5 types of Frister & Rossmann's sewing machines, 4pp., 8vo, 5 good large illustrations. Gives prices... together with... very small leaflet of the same Weymouth stores advertising the 'Kent' rotary knife cleaner, 4pp., illustration. n.d. c1910. £14.00

Weymouth LIST OF PROPERTIES Belonging to the Corporation. 16pp., 4to, printed in columns with Property, Lessee, Term of Lease etc. 1925. £12.00

Weymouth RELEASE FOR MAKING A TENANT to the Freehold in Order to make a Recovery with Voucher, Samuel Braine, Mariner and Ann his Wife daughter of Thomas Ledoze, to James Syndercombe of Stratton, Dorset and others. Refers to two messuages and gardens in the part of town called Melcombeside, adjoining lands belonging to the late dissolved Priory, and Governor's Street. 6p., folio. Copy made in 1796 of original release of 1732. 1796. £25.00
¶ Names many occupiers of properties adjoining the two properties, both previous and present.

Wimborne and Cranborne area SIX ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet XXV S.E (Hinton Parva), XVI S.W (Wimborne St. Giles), XXV N.E (Witchampton), XXXIV N.W (Sturminster Marshall), XXVI N.W (Chalbury, Horton), XXXIV S.W (Charborough Park, Henbury Park). Scale 6" to 1 mile. Size 13" x 17" plus margins. Six items. Second Edition 1902, except for one which is 1929. £40.00

Wimborne TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION by John Force, at The Crown Inn, , in Wimborne... 23rd of September 1808, precisely at 5 o'clock.... the Following Premises.... Handbill, size 10" x 7", listing 5 Lots, with acreage and quality, at Leigh, Bothenwood, and Cowgrove. Slight vertical crease. Moore, Printer, Poole. 1808. £45.00

Wingrave (Wyatt) THREE OFFPRINTS Reprinted from 'Pulman's Weekly News' Comprises: 'Lyme Regis In History. The Flight of Charles II', and 'A Lyme Regis Court. Town Business in 1830' (1930), and 'Sunlight at Lyme Regis'(1932). The first two 1p., small folio, the last one 8vo... together with an offprint from 'The Museums Journal' 1923 headed 'Lyme Regis Museum of Geology & Archaeology' extolling the work of the honorary curator, Dr. Wingrave. 1930 and 1932. £14.00